Sunday Mar 25 |
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| Event: Mine Falls Sprints
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 | Orienteering race 27:11 [4] 4.3 km (6:19 / km) | |
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| First sprint at Mine Falls in Nashua, NH, courses again by Michael Commons. It was advertised as 2.7 k, but it was 50% longer (OCAD scaling error), plus a bit extra when measured properly around uncrossable features. This sprint went fine, just a 20-30 second miss on 6. I liked the cool temps in the 40's, and not too much snow on the ground. "Sprint" is a bit of a misnomer: it was a white/yellow mix with some very, very long (and rather boring) trail legs. Hence the fast per/k, even though I didn't feel especially fast. There was some interesting route choice, but you couldn't always tell the best route from the map. |
| Orienteering race 32:53 [4] 4.3 km (7:39 / km) | |
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| Second "sprint" was also more than 50% longer than advertised, also with some very, very long trail legs. This one didn't go so well, and I probably lost about 4 minutes on three controls, even though in each case the map was somewhat to blame. I lost 1:30-2:00 on the first control. I expected to see it from the trail since the map shows it 10 to 15 meters off, but I went by it. (Forerunner confirms it was further from the trail than mapped.) When I didn't see it right away coming back, I noticed that the contours didn't look right and I got nervous that I wasn't where I thought I was. So I went to the main trail by the river, confirmed my location more or less, then went back and found it pretty easily. Too much thinking and second guessing did me in. Then heading due west to the main trail going to 2, I hit an uncrossable stream, mapped as crossable. I wasted some time following the stream south looking for a place to cross, then gave up and backtracked to the bridge. Then, going from 5 to 6, I wasn't thinking and found myself expecting to cross the same uncrossable steam, though at a different place. This time, it looked possible to wade across, so I ran up the stream to a spot that looked good and ... my feet sunk into the muck and I was totally immersed with my map underwater. It took some time to get out of the muck without cramping a hamstring or losing a shoe. The pink course lines and circles on the map were obliterated but fortunately the last control, 6, was our first sprint's 1 (right by a main trail), and I didn't much need the map the rest of the way. Always an adventure. |
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It's Pits 1 - Splits |
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It's Pits 2 - Splits |
Friday Mar 23 |
| Orienteering 1:01:09 [3] 4.8 km (12:44 / km) | |
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| At Norwottuck. Still 4-10 inches of snow, and lots of flooding around marshes that lead to last second route changes. My feet were literally frozen when I got back to the car, like two big senseless clubs stuck on to the end of my legs. The thawing out was excruciating. |
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| C • cold feet 6 |
Thursday Mar 22 |
| Road Run 42:31 [3] 5.0 mi (8:30 / mi) | |
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| Early AM run in NYC, mostly in Central Park. |
Tuesday Mar 20 |
| Trail Run 48:44 [3] 4.55 mi (10:42 / mi) | |
| weight:148lbs |
| Headed up the M&M from the little parking area off of Cushman Rd. near Atkins Reservoir. The snow was very soft, and my feet sunk in 2-6 inches with every step. So it was slow going, but good training. The run starts with a long grind uphill (my bad quad was screaming by the end), then a short steep drop along the power line, then a right turn onto a smaller trail that climbs gradually to Pratts Corner Rd. Then the much faster run back.
18:04 (right turn), 8:49 (road), 7:53 (left turn), 13:58.
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Monday Mar 19 |
| Road Run 49:03 [3] 6.0 mi (8:10 / mi) | |
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| Sand Hill loop. 8:41, 8:25, 10:32, 8:204:56, 8:07. |